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Land Warfare Armor, semi-tracked vehicles, soft skinned vehicles, artillery and specialty heavy weapons

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Old April 2nd, 2008, 11:49 PM
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During the trial tests, it proved that this vehicle was unsuited to the operations of modern mechanized warfare. Its ponderous weight, slow speed, and its awkward size made the Minenräumer (minesweeper) a large target for opposing artillery and the project was thus abandoned.
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Nice Model giving good overview.
As always, nice follow up Bob!

Also thanks for the pic! It convinced me to order the kit tonight.
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With all this talk about trikes, how about a heavily armed scooter...




American Assault Scooter



This one was actually on the drawing boards, I believe in the 1940s, until someone wisely canceled further development. A Scooter armed with a 75 mm M20 recoilless gun.
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As always, nice follow up Bob!

Also thanks for the pic! It convinced me to order the kit tonight.:applause
The thing that always has gotten me with this "device" it really looks like it should work!!!

As for the Scooter Shooter, can you image hundreds of these puppies being sold to people inclined to road rage??!!
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As for the Scooter Shooter, can you image hundreds of these puppies being sold to people inclined to road rage??!!
Actually, yeah. But I have had to drive in New Jersey where such a thing would come in handy.
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That scooter wasn't at all American but it was French n' they did in fact use 'em.
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That scooter wasn't at all American but it was French n' they did in fact use 'em.
The site I found this on said American and never developed, but I'm finding out some of these sites are not very well researched. In which case part of the fun with these I think is debunking them.

Can you find photos of them in use by the French? I would like to see what they looked like other than that crappy drawing.
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The French army&rsquo;s innovative scooter > Scooter Canada > Articles

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Great links McCoy! Now with this photo you can see where someone got the idea for the drawing. They are identical, so how did they the info so wrong?
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It's the internet mate! The place where dumb gets a meaning...
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It's the internet mate! The place where dumb gets a meaning...

Well, gives us something to do. I came across three so far that are obviously photo shopped but being passed off as real. One of a Sherman I might go back and find to post just for grins.

I found an Interesting Swedish one last night as well. I'll upload it it and drop it in.
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